Quotes about Surrender

True humility comes when, in the, light of God, we have seen ourselves to be nothing, have consented to part with and cast away self, to let God be all.

Therefore every morning, present yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead. He will maintain the life He gave, and bestow the grace to live as risen ones.

Isaac had to die. For Abraham, as well as for Isaac, only by death could freedom from the self-life be obtained. Abraham had to offer Isaac on the altar. That was not an arbitrary command of God. It was the revelation of a divine truth — it is only through death that a life truly consecrated to God is possible.

The blessing is often superficial or transitory, just because they are not the nothing that opens the way for God to be all.

It is only the fully surrendered heart that can fully trust God for all that He has promised.

God has priority over your time, no matter what else must be neglected. Only then will you be able to submit yourself fully to the will of God. If, from day to day, you persevere with dedication, time will no longer be a question.

And according to what we have of God will be our real humility, because humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

These two, consecration and faith, are the essential elements of the Christian life—the giving up all to Jesus, the receiving all from Jesus. They are implied in each other; they are united in the one word—surrender. A full surrender is to obey as well as to trust, to trust as well as to obey.

Do not mind whatever He has for me to do; though my work is feeble and I sometimes feel ashamed of it, I have put myself into God's hands as an instrument for Him to use.

Pray that He will make you willing to give up everything for the Christlike joy of the Father's constant presence.

The weakness of your Christian life is that you want to work it out partly, and to let God help you.

The Mass, it seems, is like the Normandy invasion in the spiritual realm.